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Patented Feb. 8,1887.

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N. PETERS, PhaluLithngriphar. Washington. D, Q

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGEE. ADAMS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 357,167, dated February 8, 1887.

Applicationfiled October 25, 1886. Serial No. 217.122. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. Ann-nus, of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Cuff-Holder; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings making a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Figure 1 is a front or top view of my device with arms closed. Fig. 1% is a view of same.

with arm removed. Fig. 2 is asideview with arms open. Fig. 3 is a side view with arms closed. Fig. 4 is a view of the arm detached.

The object of my invention is to produce a device with which the cuff can be readily and quickly attached to and removed. from the t shirt; and it consists in the construct-ion, ar-

rangement, and operation of the locking-arms,

as hereinafter described. In the drawings, A is the frame of the device, which is made somewhat irregular in shape to give prominence to the milled or cor-' The arms E E and the corresponding parts I of the frame A are provided with milled surfaces, the better to retain any intervening substance.

Taking the deviee with the arms open, as shown in Fig. 2, the arm E is inserted in the button-hole of the wristband and locked by being pressed inward toward the frame A, as shown in Fig. 3. This inward pressure overcomes the resistance of the spring D and allows the camshaped end of the arm to turn and presentanother surface to the spring, as shown in Fig. 3, when it will be held in a horizontal position, as will be readily understood. The cuff-holder being new attached to the shirt, the arm E is next passed through the button-holes of the cuff and is locked in the same manner as shown in Fig. 3.

Whenever it is desired to remove the cuff, the arm E may be raised, the cuff removed, and the arm again locked, leaving the cuffholder attached to the shirt.

That I claim as'my invention, and desire 55 to secure by Letters Patent, is

A cuff-holder havingtwo locking-arms, E E, in combination with a frame, A, and spring D, the whole constructed and operating in the manner substantially as described.

= GEORGE E. ADAMS. \Vitnesses:

WALTER B. Vnvcnnr, ALFRED I. HILL. 

